(While managing to avoid noting where they found out about it), South Dakota Public Broadcasting has a story about Governor Kristi Noem’s recent sky-high approval polling among South Dakotans:
Dan Lederman is the chair of the South Dakota GOP. He says the poll reflects her response to COVID-19
“At a time when a lot of governor’s pushed for locking down their states, she kept it open,” Lederman says. “She let the people make their own decisions. That’s something that will continue to keep working in her favor for the public. Because the constituents, the voters, are smart. They see that they’re given the drivers seat in how things are ran.”
Read SDPB’s story (about South Dakota’s thumbs up for Kristi) here.
And, you can read the polling memo they are writing about for yourself here.
Lots of talk of Kristi’s future, enjoy the moment though and she would be in a lot stronger position being governor than a member of Trump’s administration for Presidential run in 2024.
Keep up the good work
Lederman’s statement is a dumb oversimplification. Noem’s stance seems to have worked largely because of the type of state South Dakota is: lowly populated with people dispersed geographically. Florida and Texas tried to do something similar and they are suffering for it. So damn tiring watching people’s politics try to make this a one size fits all solution. A better conservative argument would be to let the states figure out for themselves what makes sense. What works for South Dakota won’t necessarily work for others.
So you are acknowledging she was smart enough to recognize we aren’t New York warranting a response different than what theDemocrat morons in SD demanded, the idiot SD medical community demanded, the national media demanded?
Sometimes just standing up against unrelenting morons deserves a badge of heroism.
Yes, it appears she made a good call. Credit where it is due.
Troy, you should try being nice. It feels good.
This isssue is too serious to be nice to morons who are saying stuff which results in death. The medical community abused their credibility.
Pretty rich coming from the guy saying COVID was on par with the swine flu. For reference:
Swine: 12k dead in one year
Covid: 135k dead in 7.5 months.
Yeah, everyone is a moron except Troy.